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1 IZONA REPUBLICAN AiM INDF?"OEraT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWKNTY-XINTII YKAIJ V2 I'ACES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAROI 11, 1919 12 PAGES VOL. XXIX, NO. 293 THIl. AR DANIELSSAYSTB SUP ALL II ! m unnEsniPSi Entire Naval Construction! Program Held Up Mayj be Abandoned New Type of Fighting Machine isj Cause Experts to Europe j WVfUINHTDN". March V. Possihi I itv Hint thn whul" battle cruiser pro- ; -ram of tho n-ivv, involving an e- pendif.iro of nearly a half billion dul-j lars, will ho abandoned In f:ivir ot a. new In,, of cuil-.T baltlosmp, van in dicated by an : n 1 1 1 1 1 1 . i mi nt today. lhat Secretary I Mint I Ii.nl ord'll 'I u,iU....nvi,.i ..r vi,rk nti tin' six ::r.-i.mit i ri ii.4 r-i already authorised, until a decision as In tin- future type of capital ship ii.iiM be reached. There is a wide difference ot npinioti unions American naval officers as In whether the slow battleship and the fast cruiser shmilil not Rive nay in the future to a ship combining the power . of the one and marly the speed of the other, anil because of this fact, con-; grcssional committers have deferred action on six addition il cruisers until a full report on new t pes can no mail it is to ..-attar information for t his : .i . w . . . . . . : . . i i .... . - three chief technical adv ors will sail Saturday for lairope. Ttey will be met overseas by Admiral Unison, chief of operations, and Vice-Admiral Sims and uin their return, some weeks before conert ss meets in extra session, probably in the early summer, a K' n- era l eoniereriee ii. oe neio .t! o. ., , niaioriT opinion oi c.Mie. u-.u oi oi- m ers win oe w ortei oat as i nai ''i'" -'i'o..ii .-.mil.-. '".,. lor th ;;overnment." This statement was authorised to-, " have found hovs of 17 and IS, not day by Secretary Daniels: m m;,tim," h continued, "sent awav "The conclusion relatinc to the 1 , ir ,,,,., ms in ,)rjslL,n . sm of them type of capital ship.-. resultin fr-m i,ec!n,s,. (hev were absent without leave a close study of naval activities of the homesick youths, who left to sav present war, has created sucli a OT-' ferenc of opinion ainon naval experts that the secretary of the navy has di-iicted the temporary suspension of the huildinz of the larpe battle cruiseis. Mayo Advises New Type ".Admiral Mayo, thecommander-in-chief of the 1'nited States Atlantic tlret, when before the committee on navnl aflaiis of the house, stated that in his opinion, the most effective capi- ; oue.-tion (,f ur.omplo ment. he ajssertou. t il ship of today is a h'Bh spcul bat-j w:is largely up to th- business man for tleship, which carries the threat f-'un ' settlement. power and armor protection of a but- j Senator Chamberlain severely criti-tleshlp. and as much as pos-ib!e ofcised what he described as American tho speed of the battle rr.i'scr Such ' unprepavediiess in the war and aske-1 naval experts as Admiral Uenson and j whether post-war unpreparedncs-i Admiral Sims, as a result of their oh- amtinst the menace of radical labor and scrvat ions and study ubroad, concur in I l oishevim was .coin.r to bi allowed to tlie opinioni; of Adrniiul Mayo. Many , ( ontinoe. oi ttip h:i:ti rankmir oirueis of the "There is no p'.are in this coutitr?." navy department, likewise concur in ' the senator said, "for the bolshe ist, this opinion, while many of the experts! the anirchist or the hyphenated Amer-ot the cenrt al board are of the opinion ! ie-an. out west we put them on a train that battlecruisers ns planned be pro- ' every once in a while and hint none too cenled with, and battle ships of slower! Renlly that they may seek a more con-speed. trreater run power and greater i K'enial (dime elsewhere, j.nd I think this protection be lik"vbo constructed. ' ireatm- nt would apply to New York fis "Itec-iiise of the difference of opin-iwell ns ill the west." , ion anions; n ival experts, the lamer I Mayor Ccorfte l. llaker of Portland, .'mount of nvhey involved i between f'ret'on. another speaker, also warned JlV'i'ii'.tiiii'i and J.'n'i nn" "(nil and t he i aitainst the spread of bolsh visra and i;r- it utje.-iion of fiuhtinvr efficiency beiti" Involved, 1hi Sccietarv of II n.ivv bus dircclel tin- temporarysus-peri-ioc of corcirncl ion of the battle eriiisits. f.itil" of the v.ork on the hulls has been d'Te. Soni" of the electrical machinery has been started, but it is i.ot contemplated that the dehiy of tvo mouths or so will be sia h as lo seriously Interfere with 111" proper iie- ision in too matter. It i.- I.ecausc of the (Infer, ru e "f opinion anions; experts mid o siiuly naval lessons taught by the war. thai the (secretary of the navy is takinit th" i hiefs of the techni-inl hi.ri.ms of the navy department to Kurope wilh him to Mti.ly th" ipies-tion with naval experts, ami obtain such other technical Information as is pos. silile while abroad, from studies of for-i ivrii plans and speril ica I ions." First Controversy in Years The navy has not had a similar controversy of ship uVsiKn for ten years. In this case the navy general board. charRed with ib-rldins upon the military character'stics of new sli ps,ills-UKi-een with the opinion of the hii:h officers who have had exnoricn- e overseas in the present war. On the board ate two former commanders of the Atlantic fleet. I'.ear Admirals Cailirrr and I'letcher. They believe that thi construction of both iir"ailnaui,'h's and battle cruisers rhould continue. The difference of opinion b..K:,n ,,S ,er. when the Ihitish admnalty Oe-' I'led to alter the plans for Hie battlo- suiii iiiiuii. to maKi; per a comH'sile I "aiuesntp ami name cruisr r In cifocf Ihe decision wus to build ..'v...c 1....1, speed battleship, f-aorifieini: (tun'power lo somo extent for s( d, but' reiainin-' ' (Continued on i'.-ise T-voj nevv3 EPrrortfE FOREIGN Full peace terms expected to be announced within a few days after Wilson's arrival. Russians reported to be dying in terrible numbers in Moscow. British tradesmen demand to know the facts about business restrictions.BeHm is in the grip of an epidemic of murder and plunder. Havana strike adds murder to its list of events. DOMESTIC Daniels stops all work on battleships, pending investigation of new type. Bloody revolution is the bolsheviki program to destroy the Uniteu . States government. Followmq suprems court's decision sustainino ueDs' conviction, labor demands that high court pass on constitut onality of espionage law. Senator Lodge ard President Lowell of Harvard to debate tomorrow night on league of nations. LOCAL Thousands crowd chamber at tate house to hear Vict President Marshall addreis lerpslaturc. Over governor's veto senate pastes bill giving premium of $10000 for first oil well brought in Anions. Twenty-fifth annual conference Congregational church begins Wednesday. Thirty cieleqates from Imperial val ley arrives this morning to impect irrigation projects of Salt R'Vjr va lev. First Herd of Buffaloes Is Sold In Neb. OMAHA, Nob.. March 10. What is taid to be the first herd of buffaloes ever offered for csle on any open market in the world was received in South Omaha this morning.The htrd, consisting of 18 cows, four yearling calves and a huge bull, is part of a herd of 250 buffalo from the famous Trinchera ranch, formerly owned by General Palmer and located near Fort Garland, in southwestern Colorado. The bull in this herd, which was purchased in Chicago for $1,000, it a veritable monarch of the desert and weighs 2200. The cows weigh on an average 1200 pounds each. The herd being privately owned and raised on a private ranch, the government has offered no objection to the sale. XKW VUiK. March Descnbic: (Certain court martial sentences ju, the I American army as "things that ma enisncvisis or our youni; men. united , States Senator tleoie K. ( Iiatnheria.il. chairman or' the senate committee on mihiaiy affairs, sharply crit.cised courts martial procedure in nn address before the United Waste l.easue of America here today. Kcterring to lyiiK sentences which had been imposed for clit infractions cf the rule. Senator , -U1 ml.r;1 j,, s;u,, ,h.-lt -thcse boys ini,lst:ce has been done i ;,.ni nid it will not increase their rc- coodl.vc to their mothers, or lierhan- a last word with their sweethearts. This led some of them to be sentenced lor lorty years." Senator Chamberlain urged a better I trcafm.nl of the rctimumr soldier, and asked every business man to re-employ men who Kave up their positions to enter the service, if they were physi- (ally capable of duim? the work. Th dhcr extremely radical doctrines. DEB BARE FACTS . ' LONDON. .M uch le -S.f Donald I Mclrnn, liberal leader in the house of j commons, tonicht asked for a definite i statement conci nitic the government s j trade policy. He said toe entire l.usi- j ness community was in a state of tin- i rest and uncertainty, and that he ue- I sired to know what trade could be done and tinder what conditions. The I'niled States, he added, was doing a larie business in markets fo.merly I'.nt sh. in Asia and South America, I and Japan alio was ca;t'ir-- vade. If,, ba l"in :nform"d on cred'tnhle nutho-'tv. h" sa d. that somethinR ap-iroachiits; frum'antees had been Riven some Industries for main'ain'n prices at a certain level for three or four ve.us, ineludim; the Rie.it soap indus 1JUSTSEITE1CES IKE BOLSHEVISTS BRITISH TRADESMEN try. I BERLIN', March 10. (Associated Sir Auckland ('. Ileddes, minister of i Kress) Murders, fiRhtinf? and plunder-national service and ; eronstruct ion, in,; continued throughout Sunday in aiiswerini; Sir Donald, said that the j various parts of the city. There Was policy of the KovrrnmVnt w:us that no j much sniping from the roofs. Many inmport restrictions should continue ! sparta?ans were made prisoner durins to be imposed on sroods cominsr from j the forenoon and summary executions any part of the empire, without the 'iisent of th" war cabinet, or of ra.w m;'"'' i'ils required for Die industries, i Semi-manufactured articles. Sir A tick- 1 li-iid added, woujd be admitted free, i except so far as they were being produced by industries which it was es sential to foster in (he country. Manufactured arti' b's would bp subject to restrict ions until the first of rVpteml'er, he i out billed, when the case would come up for revision. There would be no restrictions, he said, on exports to non-blockade countries, except on foods required for naval and military purposes or home consumption or manufacture. The government, he declared, hoped this policy would enable the country's trade to recover and become greater than ever. CANCELLED CONTRACT KEEP MEN FROM JOBS SKATTi.K. WASH.. March 10. Ship yard owners in Seattle. Tacome and Aberdeen prepared today, for the reopening of their yards tomorrow, following the voting of the workers who have been on a strike for seven !. to return to work under conditions prevailing when they walked out. Kmployers estimated J10.0u0.0u0 have been lost by the workers in wages during the strike. I'nion officers said the return of the strikers will not constitute a waver of their strike demands or the acceptance of the Macy board wage scale, against which the strike was primarily waged. The union leaders declare the strikers are ordered back to work until April 1. when the Macy award expires. In the meantime, a wage conference is to be held in Washington, D. C. Hctwein 2(i and J..D metal trade workers who have been on strike in Abeiil-en. were refused work todav, when tlav implied for their old lobs in Hie van! of the '.r:ivs Harbor Metal! sb 1 co: i tuation. 1 he men wei r no- I' 1 that cancellation of contracts had rend! red re-employment or the in, i .'only of thc strikers impossible. ! RAILROAD STATIONS ! WHILE OTHERS SLEEP ! i Typhus, "Unrestrained, Has r Pest Hi .lft nf Moscow People too Weak to Resist Armea -Doisneviisi PARIS. March 10. (P.y the Assoc ated Press) Typhus is adding lo th I i 1.. ......... .....1 fllcr.i-.lnr i ateu iressi lypuus i uuoiua i.. hnrmrs of hunger and disorder ii Moscow, which the population ha christened the "(.'rave yard." accordnv to a Kritish business man who has ju arrived in Paris from Kussia. Then are no disinfectants or medicines wit which to liKht the epidemic and no soap. Hot water is scarce because of tin? shortage of fuel and the result is that the freezing and disheartened population is unable to protect itself. Recently railroad officials in Monro a-, the business man reports, ordered the crowd out of the central railway station in order to clean it, and found the bodies of five victims of the typhus which had been lying for days among the peasants sleepinc on the floor. The undertakers are unable to meet the demands upon them and the bodies of I typhi:s victims await burial for weeks. I 'The winter has been unusually cold n Moscow and there has been no heat n the houses. The Britisher says that the non-holsheviki population is so un derfed that it has been unable to resist disease. Streets Dark at Six Vnder the orders of the soviet pov- crnment. the sicns of all private con (rns nae ueen remuvt-u aim viiiuau. j all remaining stores huve been nationalized, but the stocks are so small and incomplete that the clerks make little effort to serve the public. The shops i open at 10 in the morning and close st I 4 and by t o'ciock the streets are dark and deserted. The Britisher says that there apparently has been a preat increase in the number of Chinese troops in Moscow. He says that the Letts and Chinese are the only forces that Lcnine and Trotsky regard as loyal. lie says that Itussians of all classes are serving the soviet government in order to protect thoir families and to obtain too1 ,,ut tn.lt thc nussian red Kuar.is say frankly they will not fight lor the bolsheviki upainst organized forces from outside Itussia. ! When the I'.ritisher left Moscow, cat and doe; meat was selling for five roubles a pound and horse meat was hrinRinK IS roubles a pound. Beef occasionally was sold secretly by the peasants for 28 roubles a pound. Tauter, when available, brousht 50 roubles a pound. A pound of stiKar brought the same sum, but sugar was hard to et. Occasionally a little black flour sold in villains distant from Moscow and I'l.trosnid for about tl a pound. Koubles exchange fluctuates between six and ten cents. Lack of coal and oil and the dilapidation of the rolluic; stock has reduced the number of street cars and railroad trains so that there is terrible crowd-ins and concestion at stations, resulting in the spread of tjisease. People are Unarmed "I wish that people outside of Russia who insist that the Russians in soviet Kussia should arise and overthrow the bolsheviki, could see the real situation." said the liritisiier. "They would appreciate how impossible it is to upset Ienine and Trotsky. When arm 'd robbers attack unarmed men the latter have to surrender their purses. It is the same with the bolsheviki. because they have all the arms and ammunition."The scattered groups which have opposed the bolsheviki did little more than commit suicide. In my opinion. starvation and misery w ill continue in Moscow and l'etroirrad until outside pressure Torres a charge, because the non-lKlhe.vikI in non-soviet Kussia aI-e so starved and harassed that they have "either the heart nor the physical strength for effectual opposition." O 1 began in the afternoon, following the I appearance of the order of llerr Xoske, j secretary of military affairs. i Three looters, caught in the act. were the first to be executed. The government soldiers were so embittered by their opponents' atrocities that Herr N'oske's decree was welcomed. An instance of communist treachery was noted in the Kaiserstrasse. where a sailor approached a small body of government troops, holding up his hands and crying: "Don't shoot." The troops advanced to meet him and were quickly surrounded by a band of insurgents who disarmed them. The incident had been observed. however, and a force of government soldiers quickly appeared on the scene and arrested these spartacans. The sailor who proved to be a laborite dressed In a marine uniform, was summarily shot. More than 250 wounded persons were taken to various hospitals Sunday, including many women and children. Many bodies of dead also were taken to the morgue. The spartacans removed a large number of their own victims. Kill 60 Detectives 11KRL1X, Sunday, March 6. By the Associated Press) A story of whole-tale., cold-blooded murders, including the shooting of some 60 detectives by the spartacan forces, was told today unaer oatn Dy a government soldier who had been captured by the Insurgents but managed to escape. He and IS other soldiers had been captured in the vicinity of Warschauerstrasse, in the eastern pr.rt of the city, and were taken into a court back of a group of buildings occupied by the spartacans. Thc prisoners, the soldier asserts, were compelled, one by one. to climb into a' wagon where they were shot down by the Insurgents. When the wagon became full of bodies it was taken away and another brought for- I ward While this was going on. n band of rpartaeans Drought in 60 detectives who had been captured on the attack iConlinued on Pace Two) HEmSRIPM ! THROUGHOUT BERLIN GETS TEN YEARS FOR WHAT HE HAD TO SAY v?' i j. J&- , E .V A fcT . v , , g-? , ft1 " i f P f t I - IN Socialist Lender Debs has befn four times a candidate for president of the United States on the soclalict ticket. The speech for which he is new held to account was delivered at Canton, Ohio, during the war. He stated there that the a lied purpose of war was plunder. He pra sed the I. W. W. and bolsheviki. Ten years is the time he will have to serve. . . ON BOARD U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, March 10. (By Wireless to the Associated Press) President Wilson this afternoon appeared to have entirely recovered from the cold-from which he had been suffering. The president walked about the ship and also played shuffle board on deck with Mrs. Wilson President Wilson received several messages today from Colonel E. M. House, regarding the developments at the peace conference and the program which has been arranged after the president's arrival in France. The president sent replies. The president also received a wireless dispatch f om the mayor of Brest, expressing a desire to extend him a welcome on behalf of the r-tunicipality of 3rst on the arrival of the George Washington. President Wilson sent an acceptance, but asked that the cermon-ies be as brief and informal as possible, saying he desired to proceed immediately to Paris. The George Washington is main taining gcod speed aid is expected! to arrive at Brest between 3 and 8 p. m., Thursday. o LON DON, March 10 (British Wireless Service) "We have reached the turning point of the conference," says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News. "Not even when the Germans come, will there be a week-end more important than the past one. The preparatory work is nearly finished and the plenary convention cf peace will be ready in a few days. By the time President Wilson reaches Paris, the naval and military conditions will have been settled. "It is an open secret that Premier Lloyd George considers disarmament the touchstone of conference success and that his insistence on disarmament for Germany is merely the first step in a general policy of pacification, intended to lead te disarmament in all countries." iiIIelve El WASHINGTON. March 1". Chairmen of eight of the house committees on expenditures of government departments, which the republicans of the next house plan to use for investigations of war expenditures and other departmental activities, were selected today by tho republican committee on committees. They are War department expenditures: Graham, Illinois; Navy Department, Haskell, New York: Postoffice, Zihl-man. Maryland; Justice. White, Maine; Treasury. Dale, Vermont: Public Iluild-ings, Krieder. Pennsylvania; Commerce, Williams, Illinois; Agriculture. Baer, North Dakota Chairmen of three other expenditures committees are yet to be selected. The three committees on elections will be headed by Gallinger, Massachusetts; Goodall, Maine and Dowell, Iowa. Chairmen of several minor committees also were chosen today as follows: Accounts, Farrell, Illinois: Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Smith, Idaho; I-tbor, Smith, Mic higan; Patents, Nolan, California: Revision of Iaws. Little. Kansas; Arid Lands, Kinkaid, Nebraska; Reform in the civil service, Lohlback, New Jersey; Food control. Rodenberg. Illinois: Coinage and Weights and Measures, Vestal, Indiana. CARRANZA NOT INTERESTED. NEW YORK. March 10. President Carranze of Mexico has declined to send representatives for a conference called here tomorrow by the counsel on foreign affairs, to discuss affairs of mutual Interests, to the l'nited States and Mexico, it was announced tonight. Speakers at the meeting will include Manuel Calero, former Mexi can ambassador to (he l'nited States j Havmond P. Itidero. former Speaker I of the Mexican house and M tiarcia ) Adalpe. former minister of the inter- ior. 1 "T1-' Yiri im! PRESiDENTGETS Bill IK I iism MH.nn innni u iiiiu mm PEACE TERMS IB ! Ml FEW DAYS INTO EXPENDITURES LABOR DUDS COURT PISS 1 ESPIONAGE ACT Insist Its Constitutionality is Vital Pronounce it InfamousPassed in Heat of War Debs Conviction is Sustained Many Cases Pend CHICAGO, March 10. Formal demand that the constitutionality of the espionage act be passed upon at once was voiced in a statement tonight by the executive committee of the new labor party. The action followed the supreme court decision in the case of Eugene V. Debs. The statement says: "Today it is Eugene V. Debs who is involved. Tomorrow it may be some loyal trades unionist who is not at all in sympathy with Debs' principles. This infamous law, placed in our statute books in the heat of war passion, strikes at the liberties of every citizen of America, yet the supreme court delays in passing on its constitutionality." Sustain Debs' Conviction WASHINGTON. March 10 Convictions under the espionage act of Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, and Jacob Frohwerk, a newspaper editor of Kansas City, were sustained today by the supreme court in unanimous opinions delivered by Justice Holmes. Both men were sentenced by the lower courts to ten years imprisonment. While not passing directly on the constitutionality of the act. the court in effect did declare valid the so-called enlistment section and reaffirmed its 1 opinion that the espionage law is not ' an interference with the constitutional j ripht of. free speech, j Debs was convicted on three counts, I but the court passed directly on only one of these, that charsin? him with ! obstructins recruitins and enlistment i through statements made in a speech at Canton. Ohio, last June. The other two counts charged him with attempting to incite insubordination and disloyalty, and also with uttering language intended to provoke and encourage resistance to the United States governme.ftk In arguing thc case be fore the supreme court, however, the government am not press tne last charge. Many Cases Pending j Krohwerk's conviction resulted from j art ides WTilfea by hira and publishe d j In the Missouri Staats Zeitung. crifioi-, ing thc L'nited States' participation in the war The court today granted peti tions asking it lo review the case of II. K. Kircher. convicted under the espionage act. because of statements made in a recent speech at Elizabeth. ! West Virginia, in which he declared that the government in the prosecution of the war was corrupt and controlled by the moneyed interests. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment. A number of other espionage cases are now before the court, while about 7T. cases involving charges similar to those against Debs, are pending in appellate courts over the country. In affirming Debs- conviction. Justice Holmes reviewed the case in detail and held in effect that Debs had been guilty of wilful attempt to obstruct recruiting and that the jury had been properly instructed by the lower court P WASHINGTON, March lu. Severn government departments have under consideration the organijsation of a board to hear cases involving disputes over rates between local authorities, and street car. gas and electric companies and other public utilities, and to make recommendations., No legal power would be sought to provide tot the carrying out of these recommendations, dependence being placed on moral influence. The proposal was discussed with President AVilson before his departure for Kurope and his approval was asked. Some announce ment of the government's course is expected soon. The need for some Rort of federal action to stimulate the consideration by local authorities of utilities appli cations for higher rates, grows out of the fact that wages and the cost of materials still are rising, and in many- cases higher wages have been granted at the order of the war labor board. City councils, utilities commissions and other local authorities have been slow to act on applications for higher rates to meet increased operating costs according to reports to the war finance corporation, war labor board and labor department. Consequently, it is reported that many utilities face a. serious financial situation. RAINBOW STARTS FOR HOME ON APRIL FIRST COBLENZ, March 10. (By the Associated Press) The forty second American division, the "Rainbow," the first division of the army of occupation to start home, will begin entraining for Antwerp on April 1. Orders to this effect have been received from headquarters. It is estimated that about a week will be required to transport the entire body of men and their equipment from headquarters on the Rhine to Antwerp. All the locomotives and cars to be used in the transportation are to be of American make, the commanding officer deciding to use American cars because they are larger than the French and German. The original plans were to take the homebound divisions down the Rhine on boats and have them board transports at Rotterdam, but these plans were changed. Rotterdam is to be used as the base of supplies for the third army, which it is announced will begin orrivina; by way of the Rhine river. The SOth division is expected to leave Antwerp for home during April, hut no definite date has been mentioned for thedeparture. Ii! UTILITIES IN EI1U STRAITS Lodge-Lowell Debate To Be Tomorrow Eve CAMBRIDGE, MASS., March 10. The debate between United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge met here this afternoon and made of Harvard University, on the merits of the proposed constitution of the league of nations, will be held in Symphcny Hall, Boston, Ved-nesdey evening. Senator Lodge and Dr. Lowell met here this afternoon and made tentative plans for the debate. o WASHINGTON, March 10. Return of the railroads to a peace basis, as to their labor forces and other conditions affecting cost, of operating, will require several months. Director General Hines said in a statement issued tonight, in reply to an address made by Howard Klliott, president of the Northern Pacific railroad company, last Saturday in Chicago. Mr. Hines characterized as "unfair,'' Mr. Elliott's comparison of the number of employes of the Pennsylvania railroad company in December, 1917 with the It! per cent increased force on the payrolls of that company in December, 191, to demonstrate that federal control of the railways will not ue productive of the best results. The director genera! sahl favorable weather during December of last year and the free movement of traffic, in contrast with the bad weather and conr gested traffic conditions in December, 1917, Justified this increase in workers, because of the greater opportunity for car repair, maintenance of ways and other work. The Pennsylvania railroad, Mr. Hines also said, could not be considered as typical, as the average increase in number of employes of all roads from December, 1917, to January of this year, was only S.2 per cent. "The increase in the number of employes under government control." said the director Reneral," as compared with the number of employes w hen the roads were under private-management, is almost negligible except in the regions of intense war activities, and the most striking of these was the. AHegeheny region, including the Pennsylvania railroad, where the essential coal and steel were produced and where many shipbuilding yards and other war industries were located." o HAVANA. March 10. The general strike, which it was thought would be ended early today, when the strike committee voted to accept the terms offered by President Menocal. continued throughout the day and resulted in the first fatality which has occurred in three recent general strikes, through which the country has passed. The man killed was a police officer, who was shot while driving an automobile. Jin was dressed as a civilian. The news that the strike was at nn end spread during the early morning hours and a number of street cars and taxlcabs made their appearance on the streets. When however, labor committee men who had voted against the terms of arbitration proposed by President Menocal, advised their followers not to return to work, clashes between the police and workmen began and the situation resumed its former aspects. Labor leaders in favor of ending the strike are endeavoring to reconvene the directing committee, so as to bring forth a manifesto declaring the strike at an end, and advising the men to re turn to their posts. An official notice issued at the close of a cabinet meeting today, offers ample protection to all men who return to their duties. There were many wild rumors todav including a report of a clash between the police and strike sympathizers, in which the number of persons killed ranged as high as sixteen. A large number of persons also were reported to have been injured. Also it was rumored that America l marines had been landed from gunboats which dropped anchor in the harbor last night. All these reports proved untrue. The American gunboat Eagle joined the cruiser Cincinnati and the gunboat Dubuque tonight. Today s edition of El Heraldo, the organ of fhe liberal party, was seized by the police, owing to an editorial heins considered objectionable by thc authorities.CINCINNATI. March In. Mayor John Galvin of this city created a sensation here today by issuing a formal statement to the newspapers to the effect that the' Social I'nit. experimented with in a certain district here tor the first time, and which is being advocated for extensions throughout every large city in the country, is a most dangerous type of socialism. The mayor said: "I consider it a dangerous institution in our city and but one step away from bolshevism." Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane is chairman of the National Social I'nit organization and it was an announcement from the east that plans were being perfected to extend the experiment to all other large cities, that prompted Mayor Galvin to issue his statement. The mayor also gave out a letter written by the late Dr. J. H. Landis, former health officer of Cincinnati, who was responsible for bringints the first experiment of the Social Unit to this city. In this letter, addressed to W. C. Phillips, executive of the national Social Unit organization, Dr. Landis pointed out that both Mr. and Mrs. Phillips had told him that they were radical socialists and further down in the letter stated that "Mr. Hart your assistant, met with a group of socialists in Pittsburg and made the statement that "in Cincinnati we have socialism with its feet on the ground' ' HINES TAKES ISSUE ViITHELLIOTT'S IDEA II STRIKE KHS MURDER TO CREDIT WIIATI11 SCORES SOCIAL HT BLOODY HIT BOLSHEVIST PLAN i TDDESTROYU.S. i Find Willing Tools in I. W. W. Latter Well Organ ized to Spread Propaganda Mail Evidence is Furnished by Solicitor of Post Office Department WASHINGTON, March 10. Mailed matter seized since the signing of the armistice has disclosed that the L W. W., anarchists, radical socialists and others are "perfecting an amatgama.-tion," which has for its object the overthrow of the American government through a "bloody revolution," and the establishment of a "bolsheviki republic," according to a memorandum sent to the senate propaganda committee by Solicitor Lamar of the post-office department. The memorandum was made public today by the committee and Chairman Overman said it would be read into the record tomorrow.Declaring that in bolshevism thn radical elements of the country had for the first time "found a common cause upon which they can unite." Mr, I-amar said his investigation showoa that propaganda agajnst the government was being conducted with greaX regularity, and that its magnitude could be measured "by the bold and outspoken statements" found in trui literature. Accompanying his memorandum were several hundred excerpts from mail matter, showing th trend of the propaganda. These will be made public later. Particular reference was made hf the solicitor to the activities of the dissatisfied foreign element in the country, but he said perhaps the L W. W. waa the most active in the dis-emenation of propaganda, ''because has at its command a large field force known as recruiting agents, who wort; unceasingly in the furtherance of th cause." Robins Testifies Again The information furnished by Jin Lamar coincides to an extent with the statements reiterated today by Raymond Robins, former head of the American Red Cross mission in Russia, when he again appeared before the committee, primarily to answer statements concerning him made Saturday by David R. Francis, American minister to Russia. Mr. Robins insisted it was the desire of the bolsheviki to overthrow all the governments of the world, and in their place set up terrorist governments, similar to ihose in Russia. Itc said he did not know of his own knowledge tliat bolshevists from Russia actually were engaged in trying to accomplish this purpose in the United States, but that he was convinced certain people here were engaged, in propagandas bolshevist ideas. "The I. W. W." he added." has been doin git for twenty years." In reply to questions. Mr. Robins said he did not know whether bolshev-ist agitators were being sent into South America, hut he agreed with Senator King of Utah, that it was quite possible that Russian reds wou'd undertake to aid any radical groups wherever operating. Denies Francis Testimony Turning to Ambassador lYancis testimony last, Saturday. Mr. Robins denied that he had gone to the headquarters of the bolshevists in Pctro-grad, asked about their principles and indicated his approval of them, lie also denied that he had ever pretended to represent the American government in Russia. Ambassador Francis told, the committee he had heard Mr. Kevins was spoken iof in Mosciw as the moutpiece of the American government, and as a consequence the ambassador thought it wise to make a public announcement that statements coming from sources other than the American embassy were not authorized.Mr. Robins submitted to the committee copies of cablegrams which ha said passed between Ambassador Francis and the state department, and telegrams and letters which ha asserted were sent him by the ambassador. The witness explained that his purpose in offering these documents w.ns to show that at all timet his relations with the ambassador were valued and cordial and that he was authorized by Ambassador Francis to maintain contact with tin bolshevists. One of the letters was given him by Ambassador Francis. Mr. Robins said, "to provide against the possibility of error in statement and subsequent refutation of my authorization to represent, the ambassador, in tha manner indicated by his herbal instructions."This was at a time, according to th (Continued on Page Two) Odd Unusual Humorous Via A. P. WASHINGTON, March 10. Spanish workers on strike will be mobilized by the government, organized as public service units and sent back to work under military discipline, official dispatches today from Madrid say. Strikes began at Cordova March ", apparently as the result of syndicalist agitation and have spread to Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, the dispatches said. BUENOS AIRES, March 10. The port workers still insist on payment of wages for tho time lost, as a condition of resuming work. Fourteen thousand men have been out for 62 da"s. The total wage loss reaches about three and a half million pesos. Owners and shipping agents declare that they will not pay this amount. LONDON, March 10 The prospect of a tunnel under the English channel to France is being considered by the government, among its projects forafter-the-vvar. Andrew P.onar Law, government spokesman, in making this announcement in the house of commons today, said he was discussing the problem with Premier Lloyd George, as a. means of finding employment for Jis,( charged soidiers i

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1 IZONA REPUBLICAN AiM INDF?"OEraT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWKNTY-XINTII YKAIJ V2 I'ACES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAROI 11, 1919 12 PAGES VOL. XXIX, NO. 293 THIl. AR DANIELSSAYSTB SUP ALL II ! m unnEsniPSi Entire Naval Construction! Program Held Up Mayj be Abandoned New Type of Fighting Machine isj Cause Experts to Europe j WVfUINHTDN". March V. Possihi I itv Hint thn whul" battle cruiser pro- ; -ram of tho n-ivv, involving an e- pendif.iro of nearly a half billion dul-j lars, will ho abandoned In f:ivir ot a. new In,, of cuil-.T baltlosmp, van in dicated by an : n 1 1 1 1 1 1 . i mi nt today. lhat Secretary I Mint I Ii.nl ord'll 'I u,iU....nvi,.i ..r vi,rk nti tin' six ::r.-i.mit i ri ii.4 r-i already authorised, until a decision as In tin- future type of capital ship ii.iiM be reached. There is a wide difference ot npinioti unions American naval officers as In whether the slow battleship and the fast cruiser shmilil not Rive nay in the future to a ship combining the power . of the one and marly the speed of the other, anil because of this fact, con-; grcssional committers have deferred action on six addition il cruisers until a full report on new t pes can no mail it is to ..-attar information for t his : .i . w . . . . . . : . . i i .... . - three chief technical adv ors will sail Saturday for lairope. Ttey will be met overseas by Admiral Unison, chief of operations, and Vice-Admiral Sims and uin their return, some weeks before conert ss meets in extra session, probably in the early summer, a K' n- era l eoniereriee ii. oe neio .t! o. ., , niaioriT opinion oi c.Mie. u-.u oi oi- m ers win oe w ortei oat as i nai ''i'" -'i'o..ii .-.mil.-. '".,. lor th ;;overnment." This statement was authorised to-, " have found hovs of 17 and IS, not day by Secretary Daniels: m m;,tim," h continued, "sent awav "The conclusion relatinc to the 1 , ir ,,,,., ms in ,)rjslL,n . sm of them type of capital ship.-. resultin fr-m i,ec!n,s,. (hev were absent without leave a close study of naval activities of the homesick youths, who left to sav present war, has created sucli a OT-' ferenc of opinion ainon naval experts that the secretary of the navy has di-iicted the temporary suspension of the huildinz of the larpe battle cruiseis. Mayo Advises New Type ".Admiral Mayo, thecommander-in-chief of the 1'nited States Atlantic tlret, when before the committee on navnl aflaiis of the house, stated that in his opinion, the most effective capi- ; oue.-tion (,f ur.omplo ment. he ajssertou. t il ship of today is a h'Bh spcul bat-j w:is largely up to th- business man for tleship, which carries the threat f-'un ' settlement. power and armor protection of a but- j Senator Chamberlain severely criti-tleshlp. and as much as pos-ib!e ofcised what he described as American tho speed of the battle rr.i'scr Such ' unprepavediiess in the war and aske-1 naval experts as Admiral Uenson and j whether post-war unpreparedncs-i Admiral Sims, as a result of their oh- amtinst the menace of radical labor and scrvat ions and study ubroad, concur in I l oishevim was .coin.r to bi allowed to tlie opinioni; of Adrniiul Mayo. Many , ( ontinoe. oi ttip h:i:ti rankmir oirueis of the "There is no p'.are in this coutitr?." navy department, likewise concur in ' the senator said, "for the bolshe ist, this opinion, while many of the experts! the anirchist or the hyphenated Amer-ot the cenrt al board are of the opinion ! ie-an. out west we put them on a train that battlecruisers ns planned be pro- ' every once in a while and hint none too cenled with, and battle ships of slower! Renlly that they may seek a more con-speed. trreater run power and greater i K'enial (dime elsewhere, j.nd I think this protection be lik"vbo constructed. ' ireatm- nt would apply to New York fis "Itec-iiise of the difference of opin-iwell ns ill the west." , ion anions; n ival experts, the lamer I Mayor Ccorfte l. llaker of Portland, .'mount of nvhey involved i between f'ret'on. another speaker, also warned JlV'i'ii'.tiiii'i and J.'n'i nn" "(nil and t he i aitainst the spread of bolsh visra and i;r- it utje.-iion of fiuhtinvr efficiency beiti" Involved, 1hi Sccietarv of II n.ivv bus dircclel tin- temporarysus-peri-ioc of corcirncl ion of the battle eriiisits. f.itil" of the v.ork on the hulls has been d'Te. Soni" of the electrical machinery has been started, but it is i.ot contemplated that the dehiy of tvo mouths or so will be sia h as lo seriously Interfere with 111" proper iie- ision in too matter. It i.- I.ecausc of the (Infer, ru e "f opinion anions; experts mid o siiuly naval lessons taught by the war. thai the (secretary of the navy is takinit th" i hiefs of the techni-inl hi.ri.ms of the navy department to Kurope wilh him to Mti.ly th" ipies-tion with naval experts, ami obtain such other technical Information as is pos. silile while abroad, from studies of for-i ivrii plans and speril ica I ions." First Controversy in Years The navy has not had a similar controversy of ship uVsiKn for ten years. In this case the navy general board. charRed with ib-rldins upon the military character'stics of new sli ps,ills-UKi-een with the opinion of the hii:h officers who have had exnoricn- e overseas in the present war. On the board ate two former commanders of the Atlantic fleet. I'.ear Admirals Cailirrr and I'letcher. They believe that thi construction of both iir"ailnaui,'h's and battle cruisers rhould continue. The difference of opinion b..K:,n ,,S ,er. when the Ihitish admnalty Oe-' I'led to alter the plans for Hie battlo- suiii iiiiuii. to maKi; per a comH'sile I "aiuesntp ami name cruisr r In cifocf Ihe decision wus to build ..'v...c 1....1, speed battleship, f-aorifieini: (tun'power lo somo extent for s( d, but' reiainin-' ' (Continued on i'.-ise T-voj nevv3 EPrrortfE FOREIGN Full peace terms expected to be announced within a few days after Wilson's arrival. Russians reported to be dying in terrible numbers in Moscow. British tradesmen demand to know the facts about business restrictions.BeHm is in the grip of an epidemic of murder and plunder. Havana strike adds murder to its list of events. DOMESTIC Daniels stops all work on battleships, pending investigation of new type. Bloody revolution is the bolsheviki program to destroy the Uniteu . States government. Followmq suprems court's decision sustainino ueDs' conviction, labor demands that high court pass on constitut onality of espionage law. Senator Lodge ard President Lowell of Harvard to debate tomorrow night on league of nations. LOCAL Thousands crowd chamber at tate house to hear Vict President Marshall addreis lerpslaturc. Over governor's veto senate pastes bill giving premium of $10000 for first oil well brought in Anions. Twenty-fifth annual conference Congregational church begins Wednesday. Thirty cieleqates from Imperial val ley arrives this morning to impect irrigation projects of Salt R'Vjr va lev. First Herd of Buffaloes Is Sold In Neb. OMAHA, Nob.. March 10. What is taid to be the first herd of buffaloes ever offered for csle on any open market in the world was received in South Omaha this morning.The htrd, consisting of 18 cows, four yearling calves and a huge bull, is part of a herd of 250 buffalo from the famous Trinchera ranch, formerly owned by General Palmer and located near Fort Garland, in southwestern Colorado. The bull in this herd, which was purchased in Chicago for $1,000, it a veritable monarch of the desert and weighs 2200. The cows weigh on an average 1200 pounds each. The herd being privately owned and raised on a private ranch, the government has offered no objection to the sale. XKW VUiK. March Descnbic: (Certain court martial sentences ju, the I American army as "things that ma enisncvisis or our youni; men. united , States Senator tleoie K. ( Iiatnheria.il. chairman or' the senate committee on mihiaiy affairs, sharply crit.cised courts martial procedure in nn address before the United Waste l.easue of America here today. Kcterring to lyiiK sentences which had been imposed for clit infractions cf the rule. Senator , -U1 ml.r;1 j,, s;u,, ,h.-lt -thcse boys ini,lst:ce has been done i ;,.ni nid it will not increase their rc- coodl.vc to their mothers, or lierhan- a last word with their sweethearts. This led some of them to be sentenced lor lorty years." Senator Chamberlain urged a better I trcafm.nl of the rctimumr soldier, and asked every business man to re-employ men who Kave up their positions to enter the service, if they were physi- (ally capable of duim? the work. Th dhcr extremely radical doctrines. DEB BARE FACTS . ' LONDON. .M uch le -S.f Donald I Mclrnn, liberal leader in the house of j commons, tonicht asked for a definite i statement conci nitic the government s j trade policy. He said toe entire l.usi- j ness community was in a state of tin- i rest and uncertainty, and that he ue- I sired to know what trade could be done and tinder what conditions. The I'niled States, he added, was doing a larie business in markets fo.merly I'.nt sh. in Asia and South America, I and Japan alio was ca;t'ir-- vade. If,, ba l"in :nform"d on cred'tnhle nutho-'tv. h" sa d. that somethinR ap-iroachiits; frum'antees had been Riven some Industries for main'ain'n prices at a certain level for three or four ve.us, ineludim; the Rie.it soap indus 1JUSTSEITE1CES IKE BOLSHEVISTS BRITISH TRADESMEN try. I BERLIN', March 10. (Associated Sir Auckland ('. Ileddes, minister of i Kress) Murders, fiRhtinf? and plunder-national service and ; eronstruct ion, in,; continued throughout Sunday in aiiswerini; Sir Donald, said that the j various parts of the city. There Was policy of the KovrrnmVnt w:us that no j much sniping from the roofs. Many inmport restrictions should continue ! sparta?ans were made prisoner durins to be imposed on sroods cominsr from j the forenoon and summary executions any part of the empire, without the 'iisent of th" war cabinet, or of ra.w m;'"'' i'ils required for Die industries, i Semi-manufactured articles. Sir A tick- 1 li-iid added, woujd be admitted free, i except so far as they were being produced by industries which it was es sential to foster in (he country. Manufactured arti' b's would bp subject to restrict ions until the first of rVpteml'er, he i out billed, when the case would come up for revision. There would be no restrictions, he said, on exports to non-blockade countries, except on foods required for naval and military purposes or home consumption or manufacture. The government, he declared, hoped this policy would enable the country's trade to recover and become greater than ever. CANCELLED CONTRACT KEEP MEN FROM JOBS SKATTi.K. WASH.. March 10. Ship yard owners in Seattle. Tacome and Aberdeen prepared today, for the reopening of their yards tomorrow, following the voting of the workers who have been on a strike for seven !. to return to work under conditions prevailing when they walked out. Kmployers estimated J10.0u0.0u0 have been lost by the workers in wages during the strike. I'nion officers said the return of the strikers will not constitute a waver of their strike demands or the acceptance of the Macy board wage scale, against which the strike was primarily waged. The union leaders declare the strikers are ordered back to work until April 1. when the Macy award expires. In the meantime, a wage conference is to be held in Washington, D. C. Hctwein 2(i and J..D metal trade workers who have been on strike in Abeiil-en. were refused work todav, when tlav implied for their old lobs in Hie van! of the '.r:ivs Harbor Metal! sb 1 co: i tuation. 1 he men wei r no- I' 1 that cancellation of contracts had rend! red re-employment or the in, i .'only of thc strikers impossible. ! RAILROAD STATIONS ! WHILE OTHERS SLEEP ! i Typhus, "Unrestrained, Has r Pest Hi .lft nf Moscow People too Weak to Resist Armea -Doisneviisi PARIS. March 10. (P.y the Assoc ated Press) Typhus is adding lo th I i 1.. ......... .....1 fllcr.i-.lnr i ateu iressi lypuus i uuoiua i.. hnrmrs of hunger and disorder ii Moscow, which the population ha christened the "(.'rave yard." accordnv to a Kritish business man who has ju arrived in Paris from Kussia. Then are no disinfectants or medicines wit which to liKht the epidemic and no soap. Hot water is scarce because of tin? shortage of fuel and the result is that the freezing and disheartened population is unable to protect itself. Recently railroad officials in Monro a-, the business man reports, ordered the crowd out of the central railway station in order to clean it, and found the bodies of five victims of the typhus which had been lying for days among the peasants sleepinc on the floor. The undertakers are unable to meet the demands upon them and the bodies of I typhi:s victims await burial for weeks. I 'The winter has been unusually cold n Moscow and there has been no heat n the houses. The Britisher says that the non-holsheviki population is so un derfed that it has been unable to resist disease. Streets Dark at Six Vnder the orders of the soviet pov- crnment. the sicns of all private con (rns nae ueen remuvt-u aim viiiuau. j all remaining stores huve been nationalized, but the stocks are so small and incomplete that the clerks make little effort to serve the public. The shops i open at 10 in the morning and close st I 4 and by t o'ciock the streets are dark and deserted. The Britisher says that there apparently has been a preat increase in the number of Chinese troops in Moscow. He says that the Letts and Chinese are the only forces that Lcnine and Trotsky regard as loyal. lie says that Itussians of all classes are serving the soviet government in order to protect thoir families and to obtain too1 ,,ut tn.lt thc nussian red Kuar.is say frankly they will not fight lor the bolsheviki upainst organized forces from outside Itussia. ! When the I'.ritisher left Moscow, cat and doe; meat was selling for five roubles a pound and horse meat was hrinRinK IS roubles a pound. Beef occasionally was sold secretly by the peasants for 28 roubles a pound. Tauter, when available, brousht 50 roubles a pound. A pound of stiKar brought the same sum, but sugar was hard to et. Occasionally a little black flour sold in villains distant from Moscow and I'l.trosnid for about tl a pound. Koubles exchange fluctuates between six and ten cents. Lack of coal and oil and the dilapidation of the rolluic; stock has reduced the number of street cars and railroad trains so that there is terrible crowd-ins and concestion at stations, resulting in the spread of tjisease. People are Unarmed "I wish that people outside of Russia who insist that the Russians in soviet Kussia should arise and overthrow the bolsheviki, could see the real situation." said the liritisiier. "They would appreciate how impossible it is to upset Ienine and Trotsky. When arm 'd robbers attack unarmed men the latter have to surrender their purses. It is the same with the bolsheviki. because they have all the arms and ammunition."The scattered groups which have opposed the bolsheviki did little more than commit suicide. In my opinion. starvation and misery w ill continue in Moscow and l'etroirrad until outside pressure Torres a charge, because the non-lKlhe.vikI in non-soviet Kussia aI-e so starved and harassed that they have "either the heart nor the physical strength for effectual opposition." O 1 began in the afternoon, following the I appearance of the order of llerr Xoske, j secretary of military affairs. i Three looters, caught in the act. were the first to be executed. The government soldiers were so embittered by their opponents' atrocities that Herr N'oske's decree was welcomed. An instance of communist treachery was noted in the Kaiserstrasse. where a sailor approached a small body of government troops, holding up his hands and crying: "Don't shoot." The troops advanced to meet him and were quickly surrounded by a band of insurgents who disarmed them. The incident had been observed. however, and a force of government soldiers quickly appeared on the scene and arrested these spartacans. The sailor who proved to be a laborite dressed In a marine uniform, was summarily shot. More than 250 wounded persons were taken to various hospitals Sunday, including many women and children. Many bodies of dead also were taken to the morgue. The spartacans removed a large number of their own victims. Kill 60 Detectives 11KRL1X, Sunday, March 6. By the Associated Press) A story of whole-tale., cold-blooded murders, including the shooting of some 60 detectives by the spartacan forces, was told today unaer oatn Dy a government soldier who had been captured by the Insurgents but managed to escape. He and IS other soldiers had been captured in the vicinity of Warschauerstrasse, in the eastern pr.rt of the city, and were taken into a court back of a group of buildings occupied by the spartacans. Thc prisoners, the soldier asserts, were compelled, one by one. to climb into a' wagon where they were shot down by the Insurgents. When the wagon became full of bodies it was taken away and another brought for- I ward While this was going on. n band of rpartaeans Drought in 60 detectives who had been captured on the attack iConlinued on Pace Two) HEmSRIPM ! THROUGHOUT BERLIN GETS TEN YEARS FOR WHAT HE HAD TO SAY v?' i j. J&- , E .V A fcT . v , , g-? , ft1 " i f P f t I - IN Socialist Lender Debs has befn four times a candidate for president of the United States on the soclalict ticket. The speech for which he is new held to account was delivered at Canton, Ohio, during the war. He stated there that the a lied purpose of war was plunder. He pra sed the I. W. W. and bolsheviki. Ten years is the time he will have to serve. . . ON BOARD U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, March 10. (By Wireless to the Associated Press) President Wilson this afternoon appeared to have entirely recovered from the cold-from which he had been suffering. The president walked about the ship and also played shuffle board on deck with Mrs. Wilson President Wilson received several messages today from Colonel E. M. House, regarding the developments at the peace conference and the program which has been arranged after the president's arrival in France. The president sent replies. The president also received a wireless dispatch f om the mayor of Brest, expressing a desire to extend him a welcome on behalf of the r-tunicipality of 3rst on the arrival of the George Washington. President Wilson sent an acceptance, but asked that the cermon-ies be as brief and informal as possible, saying he desired to proceed immediately to Paris. The George Washington is main taining gcod speed aid is expected! to arrive at Brest between 3 and 8 p. m., Thursday. o LON DON, March 10 (British Wireless Service) "We have reached the turning point of the conference," says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News. "Not even when the Germans come, will there be a week-end more important than the past one. The preparatory work is nearly finished and the plenary convention cf peace will be ready in a few days. By the time President Wilson reaches Paris, the naval and military conditions will have been settled. "It is an open secret that Premier Lloyd George considers disarmament the touchstone of conference success and that his insistence on disarmament for Germany is merely the first step in a general policy of pacification, intended to lead te disarmament in all countries." iiIIelve El WASHINGTON. March 1". Chairmen of eight of the house committees on expenditures of government departments, which the republicans of the next house plan to use for investigations of war expenditures and other departmental activities, were selected today by tho republican committee on committees. They are War department expenditures: Graham, Illinois; Navy Department, Haskell, New York: Postoffice, Zihl-man. Maryland; Justice. White, Maine; Treasury. Dale, Vermont: Public Iluild-ings, Krieder. Pennsylvania; Commerce, Williams, Illinois; Agriculture. Baer, North Dakota Chairmen of three other expenditures committees are yet to be selected. The three committees on elections will be headed by Gallinger, Massachusetts; Goodall, Maine and Dowell, Iowa. Chairmen of several minor committees also were chosen today as follows: Accounts, Farrell, Illinois: Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Smith, Idaho; I-tbor, Smith, Mic higan; Patents, Nolan, California: Revision of Iaws. Little. Kansas; Arid Lands, Kinkaid, Nebraska; Reform in the civil service, Lohlback, New Jersey; Food control. Rodenberg. Illinois: Coinage and Weights and Measures, Vestal, Indiana. CARRANZA NOT INTERESTED. NEW YORK. March 10. President Carranze of Mexico has declined to send representatives for a conference called here tomorrow by the counsel on foreign affairs, to discuss affairs of mutual Interests, to the l'nited States and Mexico, it was announced tonight. Speakers at the meeting will include Manuel Calero, former Mexi can ambassador to (he l'nited States j Havmond P. Itidero. former Speaker I of the Mexican house and M tiarcia ) Adalpe. former minister of the inter- ior. 1 "T1-' Yiri im! PRESiDENTGETS Bill IK I iism MH.nn innni u iiiiu mm PEACE TERMS IB ! Ml FEW DAYS INTO EXPENDITURES LABOR DUDS COURT PISS 1 ESPIONAGE ACT Insist Its Constitutionality is Vital Pronounce it InfamousPassed in Heat of War Debs Conviction is Sustained Many Cases Pend CHICAGO, March 10. Formal demand that the constitutionality of the espionage act be passed upon at once was voiced in a statement tonight by the executive committee of the new labor party. The action followed the supreme court decision in the case of Eugene V. Debs. The statement says: "Today it is Eugene V. Debs who is involved. Tomorrow it may be some loyal trades unionist who is not at all in sympathy with Debs' principles. This infamous law, placed in our statute books in the heat of war passion, strikes at the liberties of every citizen of America, yet the supreme court delays in passing on its constitutionality." Sustain Debs' Conviction WASHINGTON. March 10 Convictions under the espionage act of Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, and Jacob Frohwerk, a newspaper editor of Kansas City, were sustained today by the supreme court in unanimous opinions delivered by Justice Holmes. Both men were sentenced by the lower courts to ten years imprisonment. While not passing directly on the constitutionality of the act. the court in effect did declare valid the so-called enlistment section and reaffirmed its 1 opinion that the espionage law is not ' an interference with the constitutional j ripht of. free speech, j Debs was convicted on three counts, I but the court passed directly on only one of these, that charsin? him with ! obstructins recruitins and enlistment i through statements made in a speech at Canton. Ohio, last June. The other two counts charged him with attempting to incite insubordination and disloyalty, and also with uttering language intended to provoke and encourage resistance to the United States governme.ftk In arguing thc case be fore the supreme court, however, the government am not press tne last charge. Many Cases Pending j Krohwerk's conviction resulted from j art ides WTilfea by hira and publishe d j In the Missouri Staats Zeitung. crifioi-, ing thc L'nited States' participation in the war The court today granted peti tions asking it lo review the case of II. K. Kircher. convicted under the espionage act. because of statements made in a recent speech at Elizabeth. ! West Virginia, in which he declared that the government in the prosecution of the war was corrupt and controlled by the moneyed interests. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment. A number of other espionage cases are now before the court, while about 7T. cases involving charges similar to those against Debs, are pending in appellate courts over the country. In affirming Debs- conviction. Justice Holmes reviewed the case in detail and held in effect that Debs had been guilty of wilful attempt to obstruct recruiting and that the jury had been properly instructed by the lower court P WASHINGTON, March lu. Severn government departments have under consideration the organijsation of a board to hear cases involving disputes over rates between local authorities, and street car. gas and electric companies and other public utilities, and to make recommendations., No legal power would be sought to provide tot the carrying out of these recommendations, dependence being placed on moral influence. The proposal was discussed with President AVilson before his departure for Kurope and his approval was asked. Some announce ment of the government's course is expected soon. The need for some Rort of federal action to stimulate the consideration by local authorities of utilities appli cations for higher rates, grows out of the fact that wages and the cost of materials still are rising, and in many- cases higher wages have been granted at the order of the war labor board. City councils, utilities commissions and other local authorities have been slow to act on applications for higher rates to meet increased operating costs according to reports to the war finance corporation, war labor board and labor department. Consequently, it is reported that many utilities face a. serious financial situation. RAINBOW STARTS FOR HOME ON APRIL FIRST COBLENZ, March 10. (By the Associated Press) The forty second American division, the "Rainbow," the first division of the army of occupation to start home, will begin entraining for Antwerp on April 1. Orders to this effect have been received from headquarters. It is estimated that about a week will be required to transport the entire body of men and their equipment from headquarters on the Rhine to Antwerp. All the locomotives and cars to be used in the transportation are to be of American make, the commanding officer deciding to use American cars because they are larger than the French and German. The original plans were to take the homebound divisions down the Rhine on boats and have them board transports at Rotterdam, but these plans were changed. Rotterdam is to be used as the base of supplies for the third army, which it is announced will begin orrivina; by way of the Rhine river. The SOth division is expected to leave Antwerp for home during April, hut no definite date has been mentioned for thedeparture. Ii! UTILITIES IN EI1U STRAITS Lodge-Lowell Debate To Be Tomorrow Eve CAMBRIDGE, MASS., March 10. The debate between United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge met here this afternoon and made of Harvard University, on the merits of the proposed constitution of the league of nations, will be held in Symphcny Hall, Boston, Ved-nesdey evening. Senator Lodge and Dr. Lowell met here this afternoon and made tentative plans for the debate. o WASHINGTON, March 10. Return of the railroads to a peace basis, as to their labor forces and other conditions affecting cost, of operating, will require several months. Director General Hines said in a statement issued tonight, in reply to an address made by Howard Klliott, president of the Northern Pacific railroad company, last Saturday in Chicago. Mr. Hines characterized as "unfair,'' Mr. Elliott's comparison of the number of employes of the Pennsylvania railroad company in December, 1917 with the It! per cent increased force on the payrolls of that company in December, 191, to demonstrate that federal control of the railways will not ue productive of the best results. The director genera! sahl favorable weather during December of last year and the free movement of traffic, in contrast with the bad weather and conr gested traffic conditions in December, 1917, Justified this increase in workers, because of the greater opportunity for car repair, maintenance of ways and other work. The Pennsylvania railroad, Mr. Hines also said, could not be considered as typical, as the average increase in number of employes of all roads from December, 1917, to January of this year, was only S.2 per cent. "The increase in the number of employes under government control." said the director Reneral," as compared with the number of employes w hen the roads were under private-management, is almost negligible except in the regions of intense war activities, and the most striking of these was the. AHegeheny region, including the Pennsylvania railroad, where the essential coal and steel were produced and where many shipbuilding yards and other war industries were located." o HAVANA. March 10. The general strike, which it was thought would be ended early today, when the strike committee voted to accept the terms offered by President Menocal. continued throughout the day and resulted in the first fatality which has occurred in three recent general strikes, through which the country has passed. The man killed was a police officer, who was shot while driving an automobile. Jin was dressed as a civilian. The news that the strike was at nn end spread during the early morning hours and a number of street cars and taxlcabs made their appearance on the streets. When however, labor committee men who had voted against the terms of arbitration proposed by President Menocal, advised their followers not to return to work, clashes between the police and workmen began and the situation resumed its former aspects. Labor leaders in favor of ending the strike are endeavoring to reconvene the directing committee, so as to bring forth a manifesto declaring the strike at an end, and advising the men to re turn to their posts. An official notice issued at the close of a cabinet meeting today, offers ample protection to all men who return to their duties. There were many wild rumors todav including a report of a clash between the police and strike sympathizers, in which the number of persons killed ranged as high as sixteen. A large number of persons also were reported to have been injured. Also it was rumored that America l marines had been landed from gunboats which dropped anchor in the harbor last night. All these reports proved untrue. The American gunboat Eagle joined the cruiser Cincinnati and the gunboat Dubuque tonight. Today s edition of El Heraldo, the organ of fhe liberal party, was seized by the police, owing to an editorial heins considered objectionable by thc authorities.CINCINNATI. March In. Mayor John Galvin of this city created a sensation here today by issuing a formal statement to the newspapers to the effect that the' Social I'nit. experimented with in a certain district here tor the first time, and which is being advocated for extensions throughout every large city in the country, is a most dangerous type of socialism. The mayor said: "I consider it a dangerous institution in our city and but one step away from bolshevism." Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane is chairman of the National Social I'nit organization and it was an announcement from the east that plans were being perfected to extend the experiment to all other large cities, that prompted Mayor Galvin to issue his statement. The mayor also gave out a letter written by the late Dr. J. H. Landis, former health officer of Cincinnati, who was responsible for bringints the first experiment of the Social Unit to this city. In this letter, addressed to W. C. Phillips, executive of the national Social Unit organization, Dr. Landis pointed out that both Mr. and Mrs. Phillips had told him that they were radical socialists and further down in the letter stated that "Mr. Hart your assistant, met with a group of socialists in Pittsburg and made the statement that "in Cincinnati we have socialism with its feet on the ground' ' HINES TAKES ISSUE ViITHELLIOTT'S IDEA II STRIKE KHS MURDER TO CREDIT WIIATI11 SCORES SOCIAL HT BLOODY HIT BOLSHEVIST PLAN i TDDESTROYU.S. i Find Willing Tools in I. W. W. Latter Well Organ ized to Spread Propaganda Mail Evidence is Furnished by Solicitor of Post Office Department WASHINGTON, March 10. Mailed matter seized since the signing of the armistice has disclosed that the L W. W., anarchists, radical socialists and others are "perfecting an amatgama.-tion," which has for its object the overthrow of the American government through a "bloody revolution," and the establishment of a "bolsheviki republic," according to a memorandum sent to the senate propaganda committee by Solicitor Lamar of the post-office department. The memorandum was made public today by the committee and Chairman Overman said it would be read into the record tomorrow.Declaring that in bolshevism thn radical elements of the country had for the first time "found a common cause upon which they can unite." Mr, I-amar said his investigation showoa that propaganda agajnst the government was being conducted with greaX regularity, and that its magnitude could be measured "by the bold and outspoken statements" found in trui literature. Accompanying his memorandum were several hundred excerpts from mail matter, showing th trend of the propaganda. These will be made public later. Particular reference was made hf the solicitor to the activities of the dissatisfied foreign element in the country, but he said perhaps the L W. W. waa the most active in the dis-emenation of propaganda, ''because has at its command a large field force known as recruiting agents, who wort; unceasingly in the furtherance of th cause." Robins Testifies Again The information furnished by Jin Lamar coincides to an extent with the statements reiterated today by Raymond Robins, former head of the American Red Cross mission in Russia, when he again appeared before the committee, primarily to answer statements concerning him made Saturday by David R. Francis, American minister to Russia. Mr. Robins insisted it was the desire of the bolsheviki to overthrow all the governments of the world, and in their place set up terrorist governments, similar to ihose in Russia. Itc said he did not know of his own knowledge tliat bolshevists from Russia actually were engaged in trying to accomplish this purpose in the United States, but that he was convinced certain people here were engaged, in propagandas bolshevist ideas. "The I. W. W." he added." has been doin git for twenty years." In reply to questions. Mr. Robins said he did not know whether bolshev-ist agitators were being sent into South America, hut he agreed with Senator King of Utah, that it was quite possible that Russian reds wou'd undertake to aid any radical groups wherever operating. Denies Francis Testimony Turning to Ambassador lYancis testimony last, Saturday. Mr. Robins denied that he had gone to the headquarters of the bolshevists in Pctro-grad, asked about their principles and indicated his approval of them, lie also denied that he had ever pretended to represent the American government in Russia. Ambassador Francis told, the committee he had heard Mr. Kevins was spoken iof in Mosciw as the moutpiece of the American government, and as a consequence the ambassador thought it wise to make a public announcement that statements coming from sources other than the American embassy were not authorized.Mr. Robins submitted to the committee copies of cablegrams which ha said passed between Ambassador Francis and the state department, and telegrams and letters which ha asserted were sent him by the ambassador. The witness explained that his purpose in offering these documents w.ns to show that at all timet his relations with the ambassador were valued and cordial and that he was authorized by Ambassador Francis to maintain contact with tin bolshevists. One of the letters was given him by Ambassador Francis. Mr. Robins said, "to provide against the possibility of error in statement and subsequent refutation of my authorization to represent, the ambassador, in tha manner indicated by his herbal instructions."This was at a time, according to th (Continued on Page Two) Odd Unusual Humorous Via A. P. WASHINGTON, March 10. Spanish workers on strike will be mobilized by the government, organized as public service units and sent back to work under military discipline, official dispatches today from Madrid say. Strikes began at Cordova March ", apparently as the result of syndicalist agitation and have spread to Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, the dispatches said. BUENOS AIRES, March 10. The port workers still insist on payment of wages for tho time lost, as a condition of resuming work. Fourteen thousand men have been out for 62 da"s. The total wage loss reaches about three and a half million pesos. Owners and shipping agents declare that they will not pay this amount. LONDON, March 10 The prospect of a tunnel under the English channel to France is being considered by the government, among its projects forafter-the-vvar. Andrew P.onar Law, government spokesman, in making this announcement in the house of commons today, said he was discussing the problem with Premier Lloyd George, as a. means of finding employment for Jis,( charged soidiers i